Again - please be aware that everything you might do now might screw up your device since the changes you are going to change stays on your device even after a hardreset. That's the fun of this hack but if you make a mistake your device might don't start correct anymore.I'm not responsible for any damages here and it's just a tutorial what I did with my PPCW.Net i-Mate Phone Edition!

If you have the international i-Mate version I suggest to delete Caller ID only as a maximum. All other files are really required for using some functions like the camera or even the phone.In case you have a Arabic version of the i-Mate you might want to delete additional stuff also. Not sure about the O2/T-Mobile version but the files above are the minimum you should keep on the device!

If you like you can also copy additional software from your PC to the Extended_ROM which is automatically installed after every hardreset. As I said this is pretty handy for the most used software.

That's it, now you can proceed a hardreset and if you did everything correct first the HTC applications will be installed, after the apps you've added followed by a softreset.

The result should looks like that without installing any of these applications via ActiveSync later:

That's it - even after a hard reset you get your most used programs installed automatically. Unfortunately in most programs you have to enter the serial number again after such an installation, so it might be a good idea to have the serial number also stored on the device - as a ASCII file or how I prefer it to do as a Developer One CodeWallet file.

Also I've heard from some users that they weren't able to edit, change, remove or delete files from the Extended_ROM. I can not confirm it personally because on two i-Mate Phone Editions it worked for me; these users used O2 xda IIs and Qtek 2020s; don't know if it works with every device/ROM build out there.